... entitled "Scottish Independence Focus of National Theatre of Scotland 2014 Programme". The article quotes the newly appointed National Theatre's Artisitc Director, Laurie Sansom, as stating that Scotland's 2014 referendum on Independence affords a "brilliant opportunity" ...
Niall McCarsten - Jun 29 2013 - 9:31pm - 0 comments
... St Andrews House Regent Road Edinburgh Scotland Dear First Minister, On behalf of the Manx Nationalist ... personal disappointment. However, looked at from outside Scotland the decision of almost half those who voted to support the proposition ...
Alastair Kneale - Sep 19 2014 - 10:02pm - 0 comments
... MacQueen's blog The National Library of Scotland (Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba) has the largest collection of ... Hogg, Gaelic manuscripts curator at the National Library of Scotland said: “Only a small number of Gaelic manuscripts with a Scottish ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jun 9 2018 - 12:39pm
Douglas MacQueen's blog Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for a new Scottish ... referendum and I will make a prediction today that Scotland will vote for independence and we will become an independent country ... in 2014. The SNP won 30 out of 32 councils areas in Scotland. Both Labour and the Conservatives’ saw a fall in their vote. Labour ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 28 2019 - 8:11pm
... Analysis of a survey show widespread support in Scotland for Gaelic language education. In a report from the Scotsman newspaper ... that the Gaelic language and culture are an integral part of Scotland’s identity.” ... to attacks by Anglophone bigots in Cornwall, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Isle of Man and in the case of Brittany, Francophone ...
Alastair Kneale - Dec 21 2013 - 3:38pm - 0 comments
... education continues its steady progress in the rest of Scotland. Glasgow has seen explosive growth in the past 10 years and now Edinburgh. Scotland’s “The National” quotes a city official in describing the ... in Edinburgh: “These are exciting times for Gaelic in Scotland’s capital city, and we have a special responsibility to nurture and ...
Emmett McIntyre - Nov 10 2020 - 3:30pm
... treasures has been uncovered in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. Said to be the biggest and most significant finds in Scotland in modern times, items recovered from a haul of more than one hundred ...
Douglas MacQueen - Oct 13 2014 - 4:04pm - 0 comments
... blog A panel from the Great Tapestry of Scotland depicting the Western Isles' Iolaire disaster of is to be displayed on ... (Leòdhas) in the Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan Siar) of Scotland. The panel forms one part of the 143 metres long tapestry, which is ...
Douglas MacQueen - Aug 8 2018 - 12:44pm
... Gaelic: An t-Sròn Reamhar) on the south-west coast of Scotland at 07.45 AM on a journey to Larne (Irish: Latharna) in the north-east ... the strait between north-eastern Ireland and south-western Scotland and which connects the Irish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, tragedy ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 31 2018 - 9:26pm
... Gaelic: Deasgard, Siorrachd Bhanbh) in the North East of Scotland in 1816. The Celtic Iron-Age trumpet dates from between 80-200AD. Now ... partnership with Aberdeenshire Council, Historic Environment Scotland and National Museums Scotland. The Duff House exhibition will also ...
Douglas MacQueen - Oct 27 2016 - 8:24pm - 0 comments